All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“A man needs his suffering to overcome sin.”

“The Son of Man was crucified for the salvation of mankind.”

“Why do you insist on traveling on the wrong way, when there exist the right road?”

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

“But if we get our souls saved, we go to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We’ll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That’s the most important thing. I’m thinking long-term.”

“They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.”

“Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in that world. It has unloosed your imagination from the grip ofthe despotic senses; and imagination has brought you forth your Faith.And Faith shall lift you high above the stagnant, stifling world and carry you across the dreary emptiness and up the Rugged Mountains where every faith must needs be tried and purified ofthe last dregs of Doubt.And Faith so purified and triumphant shall lead you to the boundaries of the eternally green summit and there deliver you into the hands of Understanding. Having discharged its task, Faith shall retire, and Understanding shall guide your steps to the unutterable Freedom of theSummit which is the true, the boundless, and all-including home of God and the OvercomingMan.”

“We come to God in little steps, not a leap, and that love of police-court truth you think so much of comes very late on the way, if it comes at all. What is truth? as Pilate asked; I’ve never pretended that I could have told him. I’m just glad when a boozer sobers up, or a man stops beating his woman, or a crooked lad tries to go straight. If it makes him boast a bit, that’s not the worst harm it can do. You unbelieving people apply cruel, hard standards to us who believe.”

“In faith, there is no asking for anything. To have any insatiable greed is blind faith.”

“True love comes from a pure heart.”

“Faith is a good conscience of God.”

“Unless you repent, then can you rejoice.”

“Can your gold save you? No. Only the grace .”

“What is the point in dreaming if you aren’t willing to put your faith into it?”

“Durante la fe, durante la duda, el hastío nos visita como el sueño: en el instante en que la voluntad afloja su tensión. Pero cuando la fe y la duda se dejan descubrir en su ingenua, profunda relación, y sobreviene el asombro ante la absurdidad de la existencia, ante la maravillosa indiferencia de Dios, uno recupera la calma para siempre, y la calma para siempre es el hastío.”